By Fred Zaspel– “Unanswered prayer” is a frustrating question virtually every Christian has faced. We know that God has promised to act in response to our prayers, but then he so often does not seem to at all. He has said he will give us the desires of our heart (Psalm 20:4-5), but so often [...]

Michael A.G. Haykin, Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, recently delivered a series of messages on “Prayer and Revival” at Immanuel Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., during their first ever Immanuel Network Conference. Links to the talks are included here: Eighteenth-Century English Baptists Sweet Sensibility: Andrew Fuller’s Defense of Religious Affections [...]

By Matthew Barrett – One of the events I look forward to every year is the Men’s pancake breakfast at Clifton Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, where I have been a member now for almost six years. This year was an exceptional one. Ryan Fullerton, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, also located in Louisville though [...]

If you were not able to attend the Reformation Spirituality conference at Beeson Divinity Schook, you are in luck. Not only have we posted the video of Timothy George’s message, “Captive to the Word,” but we also now have two audios: “Bible Reading and Hearing through the Work and Ministry of Thomas Cranmer” by Graham [...]

By Fred Zaspel In 1889 a little devotional work entitled Lile’s Golden Lamp was published by the New York Observer. The book consists of very brief daily devotional entries of one small page each, by various authors, one for each day of the year. The entry for January 13 is by B.B. Warfield — a [...]

by Micah McCormick When should we pray? Such a question sounds a bit strange when pitted with other more natural prayer questions like why and how. But I ask this question in order to prompt specific reflection on planning to pray. We can speak in platitudes about the importance of prayer, the necessity of prayer, [...]

by Micah McCormick How do we pray? In his book, A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers, D. A. Carson observes, “One of the foundational steps in knowing God, and one of the basic demonstrations that we do know God, is prayer—spiritual, persistent, biblically minded prayer. . . . We have [...]

by Micah McCormick The simple truth is that most Christians, myself included, don’t pray as we should. So even as I write three posts on the subject of prayer, I’m speaking to myself as well as to any readers. My three posts will answer three questions regarding prayer (why do we pray, how do we [...]